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The Veterans' Affairs Minister can't "see the point" in establishing a royal commission into veterans' suicides, despite admitting the Government doesn't know how many ex-military personnel have taken their lives.

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Veterans Affairs Minister Darren Chester said the money would be better spent on frontline support services for veterans

NSW RSL President James Brown said the issue "needs to be firmly on the agenda"

Mr Chester admitted the Government did not know how many veterans took their own lives anually